Title :
Going mobile: the next horizon for multi-million gate designs in the semi-conductor industry
Author :
Berthet, Christian
Author_Institution :
STMicroelectronics, Grenoble, France
Abstract :
The complexity of a System-on-Chip design is not only in the million transistors packed in a square millimeter. The major challenge for technical success of a SoC is to make sure that millions lines of software fit in with millions of gates. In this paper, the problem of multi-million gate design is illustrated from the viewpoint of the practical development of a complex digital system at STMicroelectronics for a GSM/GPRS cellular application.
Keywords :
cellular radio; hardware-software codesign; integrated circuit design; system-on-chip; GSM/GPRS cellular application; STMicroelectronics; complex digital system; hardware/software co-design; multi-million gate design; system-on-chip design; Application software; CMOS technology; Design engineering; Embedded system; Permission; Physical layer; Random access memory; Read only memory; Real time systems; System-on-a-chip;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference, 2002. Proceedings. 39th
Print_ISBN :
1-58113-461-4
DOI :
10.1109/DAC.2002.1012653
